WIPO
Manifesto

March 9 to April 19, 2005

A call for
immediate engagement of civil society, consumer-interest
and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) within the World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO)'s activities, for Transparency,
Participation, Balance and Access on IP regulatory discussions
and deliberations was issued through an on-line petition on March 9,
2005, at

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/wipo/petition.htmlUpdate April 19: On line sign-in deactivated. Dead link.

The petition gathered signatures in an open letter to WIPO urging its
officials specifically, but not only, to accept applications from
NGOs to
serve as ad hoc observers at the upcoming Inter-sessional
Intergovernmental Meeting (IIM) 11-13 April 2005, and for the Permanent
Committee on Cooperation for Development Related to Intellectual
Property, next 14-15 April 2005, in order to provide a balanced
discussion on the Development Agenda and on the IP system in general,
observing an equilibrium between IP right holders and consumers.
Meanwhile, the Manifesto has been translated into Portuguese, Russian,
Castellan and Italian, available under the clickable (randomly chosen
corresponding national flag) icons bellow.

Update April 12:
Congratulations to all who signed.
Ad hoc NGO applicants accepted at IIM meeting!

On March 23, 807 on-line signatures gathered were
packaged to
append to the open letter, for delivery to WIPO officials. On April 6,
the
thounsand plus signatures thus far collected were again delivered to
WIPO officials, with a reiteration of the petition. On April 11, upon
the opening of IIM, at the request of some participating coutries ad
hoc accreditation to those NGO who had applied to participate as
observers was granted. On April 19, the collecting of on-line
signatures was deactivated. The list of signatures can be viewed
through this link
(in pdf), and some signature statistics can be browsed below. We
remain urging you to follow through on these important developments,
for exemple, at

5.
Non-exhaustive examples of institutions which have
representative(s) signing:

Government and international bodies

member of the Brazilian Ministry of Health; member of the Brazilian
Ministry of Education; member of the Brazilian Ministry of Social
Welfare; Brazilian State Deputy; Brazilian Institute of Information
Technology – Brazilian Presidency; Telecentros de Inclusão Digital
(Telecentre for Digital Inclusion) - Sao Paulo, Brazil; Municipality of
Rio das Ostras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Secretary of Agriculture, Goias
State, Brazil; Green Party of Canada; Wisconsin State Laboratory of
Hygiene – Canada; WIPO, UN

London School of Economics, University of London, UK; University
College London, University of London, UK; Queen Mary & Westfield
College, University of London, UK; Imperial College London, University
of London, UK; Cambridge University, UK; University of Oxford, UK;
Oxford Internet Institute, UK; The University of Reading, UK; MIT
Massachusetts Institite of Technology - USA; Syracuse University, USA;
Cardozo School of Law, USA; University of California at Berkeley, USA;
University of California San Diego, USA; Stanford University, USA;
Columbia Law School, USA; Yale University, USA; University of Colorado,
Boulder, USA; Johns Hopkins University, USA; University of Michigan,
USA; University of Miami; School of Law, USA; Minneapolis Community
& Technical College, USA; Texas Tech University, USA; Rice
University, USA; University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA; Dublin
City University, Ireland; University of Guelph, Canada; University of
Western Ontario, Canada; McGill University, Canada; University of
Montreal, Canada; University of Alberta, Canada; Carleton University,
Canada; School of Library and Information Studies, University of
Alberta, Canada; Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic
(CIPPIC), Canada; Humboldt University, Germany; University of
Hamburg – Germany; University of
Bielefeld, Germany; Université de
Lille 1, France; University of Liege,
Belgium; Roskilde University, Denmark; University of Coimbra, Portugal;
Universidad de Alicante, Spain; Universidad de Granada, Spain; Warsaw
University of Technology, Poland; Victoria University of Wellinngton,
New Zealand; University of Auckland, New Zealand; Monash University,
Australia; MeijiGakuin University, Japan; Federal University of Rio
(UFRJ), Brazil; Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil;
University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil; Catholic University of Salvador
(PUC-Salvador), Brazil; Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ),
Brazil; Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil; University
of Vale dos Sinos (Unisinos), Brazil; University of Campinas (UNICAMP),
Brazil; Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil; Federal University of
Amazonas, Brazil; Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil;
Universidad Eafit, Colombia; Colegio Alfonsino de
San Pedro, Mexico; University of
Witwatersrand, South Africa University; of Swaziland
Library, Swaziland; American School of
Yaounde, Cameroon.